Thoughtful Thursday

School Holidays here - the first week is not over yet and already I am searching for the appropriate quote! Here is the one that suits my day!

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe


Leanne

in full bloom




I came across this gorgeous little flower store on my journey through the city of Melbourne last weekend.
It is near a jewelry
store that is
very special
to me
more on that next week!

wouldn't you just love to buy them all?!

Ms Nosybella: How often do you... clean?


I'm curious to know how often others do the things we all need to do. I'm not sure why, but there's a yearning in me to ask and I just have to get it out.

So, how often do you (my frequency in brackets)...

  • Clean the shower (most weeks)
  • Clean the toilet (every other day)
  • Change the towels (weekly if I can get them dry between goes)
  • Vacuum (once a week / twice a week if the Tsunamis have been particularly forceful)
  • Clean the fridge inside (fortnightly)
  • Change the bed linen (about every fortnight - mostly, god sometimes it can be weeks... shocker! - or daily for bed wetters... sigh)
  • Wash the floors (weeklyish)
  • Clean the oven (gosh, hardly ever... but I do line with alfoil and change that, well, hardly ever!) 
What are your 3 least favourite household chores? Mine are:

  • Putting away folded clothes
  • Ironing (I just don't)
  • Changing the bed linen (see above)
And household chores you secretly don't mind doing?

  • Scrubbing the bathroom
  • Vacuuming
  • Pegging out the clothes
Please share. Ms Nosybella really, really wants to know.

Clothing Co-ordination

When Indi was born last year some lovely friends gave us a voucher to get some family portraits done so this weekend we are off to use the voucher. My mind is now all a flutter with what to dress them in so that they all co-ordinate without being the same. Things were made a little easier today when the latest Seed Child email arrived in my inbox with some inspiration from their new range - here are my picks! Guess where I am off to tomorrow! (Shh don't tell Mr A!)


Leanne
food for the soul...




Nothing better than home made chicken and sweetcorn soup on a cold winters evening and perfect for one little boy sick with sore ears. So a chicken soup was on the to do list today. I just made up my recipe with ingredients that I already had in the refrigerator.

Our made up Chicken and Sweet Corn Soup goes like this:

1 large leek
garlic
2 big blobs of butter
1 small red onion
1 large chicken breast
a little red capscan
a little zucchini
2 corn cobs
Chicken stock

In one large pot sauté the butter and leeks gently with a little fresh garlic.
Once browned add the corn (removed from the cob) and add 2 cups of chicken stock and allow to boil. In a separate saucepan add chicken breast to boiling stock and allow to poach for a couple of minutes in the stock and red onion. Once this was underway I used my hand blender to roughly blend the corn and leek broth. Once the corn and leek was a little smoother I added a handful of zucchini and capsican for colour and goodness.

Once the chicken had been poached and cooled a little I shredded the chicken and place it back into the larger pot along with some of the chicken broth.

I continued to stir and cook for a couple of minutes, just before serving to the 2 hungry boys in my house I placed some Chinese noodles and a handful of flat leaf parsley into the pot.
{I also used some chilli flakes in my husbands bowl - along with a little salt and pepper to taste}
A quick and easy meal and can be adapted with other ingredients, enjoy!
exploring our finds...




A winter walk and lots of little objects to explore once we arrived home. We put all the little objects out onto a tray to show Daddy when he got home from work. We had fun sorting bush flowers, sticks, pebbles, dried leaves and little seed pods and berries (not to be eaten)! a busy and fun afternoon exploring our local creek...
what we discovered along the way...






a little boy who loves to explore and stroll...we had fun skimming pebbles in the creek, discovered a lone autumn leaf {the colours of autumn are so beautiful} and a seed pod which was a little wet and mouldy from the cold weather.